cover image Melusine

Melusine

Lynne Reid Banks. HarperCollins Publishers, $3.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-447054-4

``A complex and vastly entertaining gothic novel,'' said PW about this sinister tale in which a vacation at a French chateau is anything but restful. ``Roger and all his family's members are deftly created, and Banks's handling of fairy-tale archetypes borders on the sublime.'' Ages 12-up. (Sept.)